Legal Commentary

"Necessary" Evils? No, Intellectual and Moral Stupidity

By Big Tent Democrat

Via lilburro, it amazes me still that sentences like these can still be spoken by supposedly respectable people:

Mr. Obama will soon face the same awful choices that confronted George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and he could well be forced to accept a central feature of their anti-terrorist methods: extraordinary rendition. If the choice is between non-deniable aggressive questioning conducted by Americans and deniable torturous interrogations by foreigners acting on behalf of the United States, it is almost certain that as president Mr. Obama will choose the latter.

The writer is a former CIA official and is indicative of everything that is wrong with the intelligence community. They know nothing, learn nothing (torture does not work and never has) and of course have no moral compass (the writer thinks Bush and Cheney will be vindicated). The more I read from these people, the more I am convinced that the CIA requires a complete overhaul.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on December 14, 2008 (boomark / email).